MARTY FRIEDMAN: I think all of our stuff was great and I think we did the best we could on every record and believed in everything equally. As much as Rust in Peace worked, we believed all of the records that we made together were equally as good if not better than Rust in Peace or else we wouldn't have released them. We never went into a mixing session being done and said, "Wow, this isn't as good as our last couple records, but let's put it out anyway." Believe me, at the time Risk was done, we all felt exactly the same way we did after Rust in Peace.
There’s a lot to think about here re: what an artist thinks of what they’ve made and what other people will think.